Mechanical controller for automatic type casting and composing machines.



No. 744,230. PAT ENTED NOV. 17,1903.

' J. PINBL.

MECHANICAL CONTROLLER FOR AUTOMATIC TYPE CASTING AND oomosnw MACHINES. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 24, 1903.

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UNITED STATES Iatented November 17, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH PINEL, OF AL'I RINCHAM, ENGLAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters I Patent No. 744,230, dated November 17, 1903.

Application filed January 24,1903. Serial No. 140,433. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrn PINEL, of Grove Villa, Manchester road, Altrincham, in the county of Chester, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mechanical Controllers for Automatic Type Casting and Composing Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled. in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The present invention relates to improvements in mechanical controllers for automatic type casting and composing machines. Such machines are frequently referred to as machines for casting type in the'order of composition -and their mechanical controllers as perforated or composing strips or ribbons. The Tachytype, the Goodson, and the'Monotype machines are well-known representatives of this class of machine.

The improved machine, which the present invention is intended to control, forms the subject of a pending application for Letters Patent of the United Statesviz.,Serial No. l43,126filed February 12, 1903.

The nature of the present improvements will be readily understood from a comparison of them with a controller of either of the three machines just mentioned. In all the latter the matrices are arranged in a square matrix-carrier which must be moved in both of two directions, each at a right angle with the other, to make the matrix for the desired type-face register with the mold for the typebody, and two perforations in the controller are necessary, one to efiect one of the motions above referred to and the other to ef feet the other of them. According to one of the present improvements the perforations for the type-faces are arranged in respective rows transverse of the controller, as heretofore, as far as their transverse position is concerned, but the number of perforations in any row is arbitrary. It may be as low as unity or as high as the number of characters in the font may make necessary. In any case all the perforations are punched on imaginary parallel lines running lengthwise of thecontroller. Thus supposing that there are six of these lines or longirow for the respective character.

tudinal rows of perforations six of the matrices in the matrix-carrier of the machine can be controlled by that number of perforations,

each of the latter in a different longitudinal row. The perforations for controlling the justifier of the machine are arranged in a longitudinal row by the side of those just mentioned, in this respect as heretofore.

According to another improvement the controller is adapted to change the font to the one which the matrix-carrier of the machine is required to present to its mold. As is fully explained in the above-mentioned pending application, the matrix-carrier is circular in plan and has its matrices arranged in tiers, one font in each tier, so that raising or lowering the carrier changes the font to be presented. The controller is therefore perforated along additional imaginary and parallel lines, there being one longitudinal row of such perforations for each font after the first, each perforation being alined with the transverse The controller is fed to the machine naturally-1 6., with its first transverse row leading and its last bringing up the rear. Its margins are punched with the usual feeding-perforations,

'an'd'there is or may be the usual proof printed near one margin.

Referring to the accompanying drawings,

which are to be taken as part of the specification and read'therewith, Figure 1 is a plan of a short length of the improved mechanical controller duly justified and therefore ready for the casting-machine; Fig. 2, a development of the periphery of the matrix-carrier;

and Fig. 3, a diagram showing the transverse rows of perforations, which correspond, respectively, with the columns of characters in the periphery of the matrix-carrier developed in Fig. 2 and including a series of fontchangingperforations and one of spacing-perforations.

To prevent misunderstanding of the presence of Fig. 2 in this application it is again stated that it is introduced solely for the purpose of enabling the reader to understand precisely the improvements in the mechanical controller and their relation to the matrixcarrier, the matrix-carrier per 56 forming no part of the present invention.

Referring first to Fig. 2, 1 2 3 4 5 G are the six tiers of matrices in a six-font machine. There are forty columns '7 of character-matrices, all visible in the figure, and ten columns of blank matrices to be used in the casting of spaces. These ten columns do not show in the figure, being hidden from view by the vertical plates 8.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 3, 9 9 are the two rows of feeding-perforations. These are as heretofore and need no further description. 10 10 are the six imaginary parallel lines running lengthwise of the controller. 11 11 are the perforations in transverse rows, each perforation on one of the lines 10. The number of perforations in any row is variable from unity upward, and each row controls one particular column 7 of character-matrices or blank matrices in the sense that when that transverse row of perforations stands in operative position in the casting machine the matrix-carrier is turned about its vertical axis until the respective column in the periphery of the said carrier is opposite the mold for the body of the next type to be cast. The means by which the said transverse row of perforations in the controller turns the matrix-carrier may be of any suitable kind. The preferred means are fullydescribed in the pending application already mentioned with reference to the casting-machine. Thus if it is the transverse rowll on the extreme left of Fig. 3 that is standing in operative position in the casting-machine the matrix-carrier is turned until that column 7, which is shown on the extreme left of Fig. 2, is brought opposite the mold for the body of the next type.

The above is true for a matrix-carrier adapted to be turned about its vertical axis, whether such carrier has only a single font-say the tier 1 of Fig. 2or several fonts arranged in tiers, as the six tiers 1 to 6 of the said figure. The improved controlleris adapted to change the font at'any moment in use in the casting-machine to the one which the matrix-carrier is required to next present to the mold of the machine by a series of perforations distributed upon imaginary parallel lines 12, &c. (See Fig. 3.) There are as many of these imaginary lines 12 as there are fonts in excess of unity, because it is self-evident that when there is only one font it requires neither elevation nor depression. Thus as there are six fonts in the matrix-carrier shown in Fig. 2 there are five parallel lines 12 in the controller, (marked, respectively, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16.) There is one of these font-changing perforations (shown in Fig. 3) on each of these five lines, they being marked, respectively,

17, 18, 19, 20, and 21 and are alined transversely thereon with the respective transverse row of perforations 11. The effect of a font-changing perforation is to raise or lower the matrix-carrier from the position it may occupy at any given moment to the one which will place the desired font in the plane of or opposite to the mold. Thus there being no font-changing perforation against the transverse row of perforations 11 on the left of the one against which the perforation 17 stands the matrix-carrier is holding the top tier or font 1 opposite the mold; but as soon as the next transverse row of perforations 11 gets into operative position (the direction in which the controller moves through the machine is indicated by the arrows of Figs. 1 and 3) the perforation 17 has the effect of raising the matrix-carrier through a distance equal to the thickness of one tier-that is to say, it will place the tier 2 in the position out of which it at the same time moves the tier 1, and so with each of the other font-changingperforations 18 to 21. The means by which a fontchanging perforation alters the position of the matrix-carrier in a vertical sense may be of any suitable kind, but is preferably of the same kind as the means by which a transverse row of perforations 11 turns the matrixcarrier.

22 22 are space-perforations and cooperate with the blank matrices behind the plates 8, already mentioned. Any one of these perforations brings the respective column of blank matrices opposite the mold. If it be desired, a font-changing perforation may be combined with any space-perforation 22.

23 (see Fig. 1) is the usual proof.

The transverse rows of perforations in Fig. 1 stand for (reading from the left or leading end) the following line: an em quad PLINE, an en quad Fondcrie, a space Typographique; a space Dijon, a space 1902, four em quads and a space. The first em quad is cast from tier 1, but the next character is in the third tier 3, so that there is a font-changing perforation 1S alined with the respective perforations 11. The next four characters are small capitals, Which are all in tier 5, so that there is a font-changing perforation 2O alined with the respective rows of perforations 11, and so on for the F of Fondcrie, the T of Typographique, the five characters of DIJ ON, the comma immediately following them, and the figures 1902.

I claim- 1. In the mechanical controller of a machine for making type in the order of composition, transverse rows of perforations, each row adapted to cooperate with a charactermatrix in the matrix-carrier of the machine, the number of perforations in any one row varying from unity upward.

2. In the mechanical controller of a machine for making type in the order of composition, transverse rows of perforations, each row adapted to cooperate with a charactermatrix in the matrix-carrier of the machine, the number of perforations in any one row varying from unity upward and font-changing perforations cooperating with the matrixearrier to make the latter present another font opposite the mold in the machine.

3. In the mechanical controller of a ma- IIO chine for making type in the order of compoforations cooperating with the blank matrices IO sition, transverse rows of perforations, each for spaces in the matrix-carrier.

row adapted to cooperate with a character- In witness whereof I have hereunto set my matrix in the matrix-carrier of the machine, I hand in the presence of two witnesses.

the number of perforations in any one row I J PINEL varying from unity upward, font-changing l perforations cooperating with the matrix- Witnesses: carrier to make the latter present another font l GEORGE ERNEST BANNISTER, opposite the mold in the machine and per- 1 HAROLD WORSLEY. 

